期刊
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
卷 382, 期 -, 页码 34-43出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.06.034
关键词
Muscle modelling; Masseter muscle; Iodine potassium iodide; Pennation angle; Dog
资金
- Max Planck Society
- Gesellschaft zur Forderung Kynologischer Forschung e.V.
- German Ministry for Education and Research
- German Social Accident Insurance [FF-FR0194]
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP)/ERC Grant [306757]
Skeletal muscle models are used to investigate motion and force generation in both biological and bioengineering research. Yet, they often lack a realistic representation of the muscle's internal architecture which is primarily composed of muscle fibre bundles, known as fascicles. Recently, it has been shown that fascicles can be resolved with micro-computed tomography (mu CT) following staining of the muscle tissue with iodine potassium iodide (I2KI). Here, we present the reconstruction of the fascicular spatial arrangement and geometry of the superficial masseter muscle of a dog based on a combination of pattern recognition and streamline computation. A cadaveric head of a dog was incubated in I2KI and mu CT-scanned. Following segmentation of the masseter muscle a statistical pattern recognition algorithm was applied to create a vector field of fascicle directions. Streamlines were then used to transform the vector field into a realistic muscle fascicle representation. The lengths of the reconstructed fascicles and the pennation angles in two planes (frontal and sagittal) were extracted and compared against a tracked fascicle field obtained through cadaver dissection. Both fascicle lengths and angles were found to vary substantially within the muscle confirming the complex and heterogeneous nature of skeletal muscle described by previous studies. While there were significant differences in the pennation angle between the experimentally derived and mu CT-reconstructed data, there was congruence
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